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rural livelihood systems; and national parks, trans-frontier parks and rural AFRICAN STUDIES (AFR) livelihood systems.

AFR 501: Key Issues in African Studies AFR 534: Political Economy of Energy and Extractive Industries in (Oil and Mining) 3 Credits 3 Credits A seminar to review leading issues in African Studies and African development. Given the rising global demand for energy and resources, Africa's production of oil and solid minerals has already produced very significant AFR 505: African Studies Methodology positive as well as negative impacts on the continent's political, economic, and social conditions. This seminar examines the extractive 3 Credits industry-driven changes in Africa's political economy, as well as in the This course is an interdisciplinary research seminar in African Studies continent's foreign relations. Students will examine the institutional basis for graduate students in the humanities. In the seminar, students will under which the expansion of the industry is taking place in Africa. This explore key debates and issues in the field while examining the diversity will involve discussions of the institutional characteristics of Africa, of theoretical and methodological approaches that scholars of African including issues of land tenure and property rights laws, how institutional Studies have used to approach these debates. Through research articles systems are changing in order to facilitate the industry's expansion, that each employ a different set of methodological tools to examine and the repercussions of these changes upon society. The course also questions of modernity and tradition, development, gender, ethnicity, interrogates the relevance of international efforts to mitigate some of the conflict, and transnationalism, students will understand the possible adverse impacts of the industry. Among such efforts is the UN Guiding approaches that can be employed to identify a research questions, gather Principles for Business and Human Rights. Overall this seminar examines evidence, and analyze it. Through reading and discussing such research the industry's impact on Africa's socioeconomic development and global articles, and discussing with scholars who visit class to present their relations, and concludes with how African countries might deal with the research, students will gain conceptual tools to advance a research adverse impact of the Oil and Mining industry. project in methodologically-grounded ways. While some topics will apply Cross-listed with: INTAF 534, PLSC 534 more directly to the student's individual research project, the themes studied are those that all scholars of African Studies should have some AFR 537: Gender, Sexuality and in Africa: Exploring Contemporary knowledge and mastery over, and each module will give students an Feminist Scholarship opportunity to experiment by applying the theory and methods referenced in the scholarly literature to primary sources relevant to the student's own 3 Credits research. See syllabus in supplementary materials for more information. A course about discourses of sexuality and gender in studies of Islam in AFR 527: Migration, Urbanization, and Policy in the Developing World Africa, with South Africa as a case study.

3 Credits Cross-listed with: WMNST 537

This course examines the dynamics of migration and urbanization AFR 543: Comparative and International Trends in Adult Literacy processes, as well as their policy implications, in non-industrialized Education regions of the world. 3 Credits Cross-listed with: SOC 527 This course critically examines the broad contemporary issues and AFR 532: Environment and Livelihoods in Africa interdisciplinary trends of literacy education with an international and comparative framework. CI ED (ADTED/AFR) 543 Comparative and 3 Credits International Trends in Adult Literacy Education (3) This course provides a comparative synthesis of what is known about literacy education and An enquiry into the relationships between the environment, resource adult learning and what it will mean for the 21st century: the context in control, resource conservation, rurual livelihood systems and poverty in which literacy takes place; who participates; what they learn and why; Africa. AFR 532 Environment and Livelihoods in Africa (3) The seminar the nature of the learning processes; new approaches to adult learning; examines the relationships among the environment, resource control, social media and mobile devices; development theory in adult learning; conservation and rural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. Readings and other issues relevant to understanding literacy education and adult will allow students to develop a critical understanding of the ideology learning in sociocultural, political, and international contexts. It also and epistemology of environmental management, resource control, examines the newer approaches to adult learning: embodied, spiritual rural development and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. Students will be and narrative learning; learning and knowing in non-western perspectives; encouraged to interrogate modernist doctrines such as population- and cultural theory, poststructural and feminist perspectives. This course environment narratives, poverty-stewardship narratives and related investigates questions such as: What does it mean to be literate in the environmental ideologies/narratives that embody sustainability and 21st century? Why are teachers experiencing difficulty teaching students rural (under)development in sub-Saharan Africa. Through case study skills needed to understand and produce written work? Can schools examples, students will use these conceptual foundations to trace the in the 21st century inundated with digital technologies help students relationships between sustainability and poverty in a number of livelihood navigate the new literacies? How should adult literacy participants systems and resource control regimes. Some examples are resource deal with the reality of new media and new literacies? What is the role (land/water) management between the state and nomadic pastoral of non-governmental organizations in this crisis? Overall, this course systems; land reform and rural peasant livelihood systems; mining and challenges graduate students to engage other international and non- 2 African Studies (AFR)

western frameworks of learning and knowing to think about the purpose of education and learning as well as question the nature of knowledge production itself.

Cross-listed with: ADTED 543, CIED 543

AFR 550: African Feminisms

3 Credits

African feminisms are deeply rooted in the continent's rich historical traditions and diverse cultural contexts. In this interdisciplinary graduate seminar, students will become familiar with the theoretical frameworks that guide African feminist scholarship, as well as the activist from which they emerged. This course will consider the epistemological foundations of African feminist thought and how they differ from feminisms in other parts of the world. This course will also examine key areas of conjuncture - how African feminisms map on to larger transnational movements. Particular emphasis will be placed on the fluidity of African gender systems, the ways in which African women have negotiated politics, religion, militarism, sexuality, and violence, and the role of creativity, art, and beauty in nurturing and sustaining activist momentum. Students in the course can expect to engage with a number of different types of texts: documentaries, feature films, memoirs, novels, newspapers, scholarly books, and articles.

Cross-listed with: WMNST 550

AFR 596: Individual Studies

1-9 Credits/Maximum of 9

Creative projects, including nonthesis research, that are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.

AFR 597: Special Topics

1-9 Credits

Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently; several different topics may be taught in one year or semester.